"Well, I have to write. A lot of……" — George Plimpton
"Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life"
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14 Quotes by George Plimpton
George Plimpton has 14 quotes on this site.
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At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was…
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I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a…
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The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the…
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You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in…
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Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
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My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
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The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
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As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing…
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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
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I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
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He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he…
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North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.
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I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded…
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I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie…
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I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever…
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
— Edward Abbey
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
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